Nazi Party

The National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), better known as the Nazi Party, was a fascist political party in Germany active from 1920 to 1945. Founded by Anton Drexler, Adolf Hitler surpassed him in popularity and became its leader in 1921, becoming the face of the party and its unique ideology of Nazism. The party's goal was to draw workers away from communism and towards nationalism, which led to its adaptation to include anti-Semitism, anti-Marxism, and racism as its views in the 1930s. In 1933, the Nazi Party won elections in the Weimar Republic and formed a totalitarian government under Hitler - Nazi Germany - and ruled over Germany until 1945. Nazi Germany became a large empire by occupying almost all of Europe during World War II in 1939-1945, and it implemented its racist and nationalist policies with its anti-Jewish genocide in the Holocaust of 1942-1945 (killing over 6 million people), its extermination of homosexuals, Romani, Slavs, the handicapped, and mentally-ill, and the end of World War II in 1945 allowed for the Nazi Party to be outlawed by the Allied Powers. Although the Nazi Party was destroyed and Denazification occurred after the war, many racist and far-right people continue to adhere to Nazism, becoming known as neo-Nazis.